Weert dialect

Not to be confused with Weert Dutch or a Weert accent, the accent/regional variety of Standard Dutch spoken in Weert.
Weert dialect
Wieërts
Pronunciation [βiəʀts]
Native to Netherlands
Region Weert
Official status
Official language in
Limburg, Netherlands: Recognised as regional language as a variant of Limburgish.
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None

Weert dialect or Weert Limburgish (natively Wieërts, Standard Dutch: Weerts [ʋeːrts]) is the city dialect and variant of Limburgish spoken in the Dutch city of Weert alongside the Dutch language (with which it is not mutually intelligible). All of its speakers are bilingual with standard Dutch.[1]

It has two varieties: Stadsweerts, spoken in the city centre, and the more rural dialect.[1]

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes[2]
Labial Alveolar Postalveolar Dorsal Glottal
Nasal m n (ɲ) ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t (c) k
voiced b d (ɟ) ɡ
Fricative voiceless f s (ʃ) x h
voiced v z (ʒ) c
trill ʀ
Approximant β l j

Vowels

Monophthongs of the Weert dialect, from Heijmans & Gussenhoven (1998:110). The close-mid vowels /eː, øː, ʊ, oː/ are not shown.
Monophthong phonemes[4]
Front Central Back
unrounded rounded unrounded
short long short long short short long
Close i y u
Close-mid ɪ () ʏ (øː) ə (ʊ) ()
Open-mid ɛ ɛː œ œː ɔ ɔː
Near-open æ æː
Open ɑ ɑː
Part 1 of the Weert dialect diphthongs, from Heijmans & Gussenhoven (1998:110)
Part 2 of the Weert dialect diphthongs, from Heijmans & Gussenhoven (1998:110)
Diphthong phonemes[9]
Starting point Ending point
Front Central Back
Close unrounded
rounded yə uə
Close-mid unrounded
rounded øə oə
Open-mid unrounded ɛi ʌu
rounded œy

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Bibliography

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